Tribute to the heroes!

More than one and a half million of the population of the Monarchy fell victim to the Great War. This huge number (about 3% of the total population, 10% of the adult male population fit for service) includes those who died in combat on the battlefield, the seriously wounded and the sick who died in hospitals. Of course, they were all heroes who died while fulfilling their oath to their homeland and the monarch. It is another question how heroic their death was, how exemplary their battlefield activity was. It is obvious that the majority did not seek glory, danger (and death). But the majority fulfilled their duty and the orders they received and died in the process.

From all this, the conclusion for me is that the gray, silent dead of the Great War deserve the same respect as those who died on the occasion of some special, noteworthy event. Thus, the badge in the post, which pays tribute to those who fell on the battlefield, pays tribute to all victims. According to the text in the background image, we see the dead corpses of 10th Battle of the Isonzo. They most likely rested first in a common grave and later in an ossuary in the huge war memorials built by the Italian government after the war.